PATTERNLESS CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Plant stalk 5 Vader or Maul 10 Nothing special
14 Top point 15 City about an hour from Lincoln 16 “Come in, we’re ___” 17 Government report
19 Soft projectile brand 20 Signify 21 NYC bus operator 23 Albert Pujols stat 24 Voiceactivated assistant 25 Spaghetti’s thinner relative 28 Massive amount 29 Winter Olympics racers 31 Smidgens 32 Nuisances in a trash bin 34 Do a bank heist, e.g. 35 Missing class 36 Leave without words 39 Low-wage positions, slangily 42 Pasture 43 Hubbubs 47 “Star Trek” role for Zoe Saldana 48 Coastal expanses 50 “That’s ___ way to do it” 51 Difficultto-trace funds 53 Peace Prize winner Sadat 55 Prohibiting booze 56 High card, often
57 It borders (and rhymes with) Rwanda 58 Cooking fat 60 Newscaster’s video introduction, or a hint to the ends of 17-, 25-, 36- and 51-Across 63 Falco of “The Sopranos” 64 Publication such as Slate 65 Website’s main page 66 Company behind a ring gathering hedgehog 67 Seized cars, briefly
68 Has to pay back
DOWN
1 Figures ready for analysis 2 Organizational tier 3 Renowned 4 Rehab process 5 Inside info 6 Doctor’s org. 7 Genre for Cardi B or LL Cool J 8 Booker T.’s backup 9 “The Outcasts of Poker Flat” writer Bret 10 Certain heir 11 Run, as a machine 12 Belgrade native
13 Like a single person? 18 And others: Abbr. 22 “I couldn’t have done that” excuse 25 Visibly excited 26 Cosmic clouds 27 Book before Joel 30 Vessels on mantels 33 Birth announcement bird 35 Somewhat 37 Former first
lady Michelle 38 “___, meeny, miney, mo ...” 39 Makes confusing 40 Utter farce 41 MacGyver a contraption, say 44 Follow-up to “Up top!” 45 Quick way to stop or turn 46 Colorful Mexican shawls 48 Elicit a “gesundheit” 49 Epic tale 52 Brownish yellow tone 54 Cheesy chip 57 Applications 59 Org. that busts narcotics rings 61 Jeans problem 62 Ambient music pioneer Brian